Friday, July 19, 2013

Baseball as a metaphor for life in America

I have come to realise over six years of intense study (and it has
to be said the occasional pitch-side beer and hot dog) is the key point
about baseball.
As a sport, it is really all about failure. Or more precisely
how the players psychologically handle failure - the fact that they are
going to miss the ball more often than they hit it.And as I have sat in the stands over the years, I have begun
to realise just why there is such a rich tradition of treating baseball
as a metaphor for life in America.

Just as their baseball players do, Americans are adept at picking themselves up

This is indeed the land of
opportunity where children grow up being told what a "great job" they
are doing and how they might all be president one day.

Which is all fine of course, except that for many, perhaps for most Americans, success never really comes.